Brugh v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2004
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 102 Cal. App. 299 - City of Los Angeles v. Oliver · Duncan v. De Yampert · Mudd v. Lanier · Crawford v. Carlisle · Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Green
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Whether a remainder is vested or contingent depends on the language employed. If the conditional element is incorporated into the description of, or into the gift to, the remainder-man, then the remainder is contingent; but if, after words giving a vested interest, a clause is added divesting it, the remainder is vested.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baldwin v. Branch“the remainder to be paid to the reversioners or remaindermen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“or any remainder or reversionary interest therein,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.